Store-bin.



PATENTED JAN. 20, 1903.

0. H. MATHER.

STORE BIN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1902,

H0 MODEL.

Snow H301 witmg'oe o UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MATHER, OF ESSEX, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE E. KNOWLES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

STORE-BIN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 718,647, dated January 20, 1903.

Application filed November 10, 1902. Serial No. 130.802. (No model.)

To all whom it may 10 of the main body 1 and is provided with a Be it known that I, CHARLES H. MATHER, handle 6, whereby it may be pulled forward, a citizen of the United States, residing in Esas shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5. The sides of sex, in the county of Middlesex and State of this drawer embrace those of the main body 5 Connecticut, haveinventedacertain new and and slide along the same until the front of useful Improvement in Store-Bins, of which the drawer fits flat against the front of the the following is a specification. body, as shown at 7 in Fig. 1. A handle Sis WVhere small hardware, provisions, and the preferably used in the front of the body 1 like are Weighed out and sold from bins, two and should be let into the said front, so as to 1o principal difficulties are often met with. In cause no obstruction to the front of the drawer. taking out the quantities to be weighed there The main body is kept centered within its isafrequent spilling of small amounts around compartment by cleats 9 on each side therethe bin and on the floor, which causes waste of, so as toinsure easy slipping inward of the and dirt. In returning to the bin the surplus weighing-drawer 5. This is not essential to 15 leftin the scoop orother device after weighing, my broad invention, and indeed it is to be it frequentlyoccurs that in haste this surplus understood that I am not confined in my is accidentally thrown back into the wrong claims to the use of a movable main body in bin, thus confusing sizes or qualities; or both. my bin. 7

It is the object of this invention to provide In using this bin the following course is 20 a cheap and simple means which shall take pursued. The drawer 5 is first pulled forup a minimum of room and whereby the ward, as in Fig. 5, and approximately the above-named difficulties may be obviated. amount of goods required is drawn forward Apreferred form of this invention is shown out of the body 1 by the hand or otherwise. in the accompanying drawings, wherein (See Fig. 5.) The drawer thus charged (see 2 5 Figure 1 shows in perspective a portion of Fig. 3) is carried to the scales and the-desired a nest of bins as preferably used under a amount is weighed out. The salesman then store-counter. Fig. 2 is a perspective View returns to the nest of bins with the surplus of a single bin made in accordance with this goods in the drawer and his eye is at once invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of caught by the bare front of the body 1, as o theweighing-drawershown as holdingaquanshown at- 10 in Fig. 1. He knows that the tity of nails. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a sindrawer in his hand must be fitted to that gle bin, and Fig. 5 is a median vertical secbody so exposed, and therefore throws the tion of the same. surplus goods into that box before returning The main storage-box 1 of the bin may be its drawer to its place. Accidental placing 3 5 of any preferred shape and size consistent of the surplus in the wrong box is thus with my general construction, but I have avoided. It will also be seen that in first found the form shown a convenient one for taking the goods out of the body 1 the fact nails and small hardware. In any case it is that the drawer embraces the box under it .preferred to supply an inclined floor at the and on each side prevents accidental spilling 0 front, as shown at 2, as this facilitates scoopof any of the goods on the floor when removing the material stored out of the front of the ing them from the main body. bin. The bins may be used singly or in rows What I claim is within an appropriate casing 3. (See Fig. 2.) 1. In a store-bin, a main body and aweigh- In the latter case each bin is preferably coning-drawer fitting the front thereof and em- 5 45 tained within a separate compartment and is bracing said front, substantially as described.

provided with rollers 4 to facilitate bringing 2. In a store-bin, a main body and a weighthe bin forward for refilling, &c. These rolling-drawer of the same height as the front of ers lift the body 1 sufficiently to permit the said body, said drawerfitting the front of bottom of the weighing-drawer 5 to be slipped said body and embracing the same, substan- 50 easily under it, as shown in Fig. 5. This tially as described.

drawer is preferably as high as the front 3: In a store-bin, a main body having an inclined fioor in front and a weighing-drawer fitting the front thereof and embracing said front, substantially as described.

4:. In a store-bin, a main body having a low front, an inclined fioor leading up to the upper edge of said front, and a weighing-drawer of the same height as the front of the body, said drawer fitting the front of the body and embracing the same.

5. In a store-bin, a compartment, a main body on rollers Within said compartment and a weighing-drawer fitting the front thereof and embracing said front.

6. In a store-bin, a compartment, a main 

